Source: SFGate
“All at once, Saikat Chakrabarti is a nobody, a Silicon Valley millionaire and a humble job applicant. ‘I’m not choosing to challenge the most powerful woman in Congress. I am just choosing to challenge my congressional representative in San Francisco,’ he said last month at Manny’s, the famous political venue in San Francisco’s Mission District. He was speaking to roughly 120 people during his first public event since announcing he would challenge Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker emerita who has represented San Francisco in Congress since 1987, in a primary election next year. This is the first time the 39-year-old, who spent the last decade helping recruit and elect progressives to Congress, is running on his own.” (05/01/25)